The pressure on the Colonial government to open the Manitoulin for white settlement were intense, as available arable lands in Southern Ontario were running out. The result was the much-contested Treaty of 1862.

Island of Great Spirit - The Legacy of Manitoulin

12. The Treaty of 1862

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